Bats Quotations

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.

I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat.

The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.

I did 'Kidulthood' and 'Adulthood,' and that's what people wanted and expect me to always do. They want me to do 'hood films and be the guy swinging baseball bats and saying 'Yo Blood' and beating up others in the street.

A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is this: You have to know the strike zone. That's the most important thing. Hit strikes and put the bat on the ball.

If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat.

Like an author, a cricketer signs his name on every innings he bats or bowls in; indeed for every cricket ball that challenges him on the field.

I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.

When I'd written my 'Silverwing' series - I'd imbued the bats with full human awareness and vocabulary.

I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head.

There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than are killed with guns.

When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool

What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.

When I was a kid, I dreamed of using a bat with my own name on it.

When you're in a slump, you do something different, just to try it. I remember one time I was in a slump, and I borrowed one of Henry Aaron's bats and hit two homers. I used my own bats the next night. I just needed a change.

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

When we played the Dodgers in St. Louis, they had to come through our dugout, and our bat rack was right there where they had to walk. My bats kept disappearing, and I couldn't figure it out. Turns out, Pee Wee Reese was stealing my bats. I found that out later, after we got out of baseball. He and Rube Walker stole my bats.

You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.

Vampires were always able to transform into creatures of the night. The dark creatures like bats have always been associated with vampires and using the darkness to their own advantage.

I have entered the sports equipment business with 'Bhajji Sports.' I am applying for ICC clearance so that cricket bats with 'Bhajji Sports' logos could be used for international matches. In domestic circuit, the Punjab team is already wearing Bhajji Sports dresses for the Ranji Trophy matches.

When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than (Ty) Cobb.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

One of the first ways of doing that is removing horseshoe bats from marketplaces and urban centers, ... Another important way is to get the horseshoe bat off the diet of human beings. Those two measures will go a long way to preventing another outbreak of SARS.

I was telling our guys to get as few walks as possible because we wanted to swing the bats today.

If we get the bats going, I think everything else will fall into place.

Somebody knew somebody in Syracuse and we got a bunch of busted bats and lathed them down and presto, belay pins.

Obviously we're not swinging the bats good right now. And when you don't swing the bats good, it takes away from the energy of the club.

Obviously we had a lot of walks in those middle innings. I still look at five runs after two and you should still produce a few more. If I look at it from our team's perspective, we've got to put some more at bats together.

Obviously, we had some pretty big bats last year. But this year's lineup isn't so bad, either.

Morales is a kid that gets limited at bats but he picked up three hits and the big grand slam. Clay (Glover) hit the ball hard four times today and we need to find a way to get him in the lineup. We have three or four guys that are really (designated hitters), so we have to be able to get his bat out there on a daily basis.

I grabbed Trot Nixon's bats today and I'm grabbing any bat that feels good now.

I'd like to get out of Philadelphia. I don't care for the people or their attitude, although they don't bother me or my play. But maybe the Phillies can get a couple of broken bats and shower shoes for me.

I don't feel like I'm on fire, but I'm getting my hits. I still have those at bats when I feel like I'm back in spring training. I'm not complaining, don't get me wrong. If I feel like this all year and hit good that's fine.

(Lee) threw his fastball well. They swung the bats well still but Lee did a good job.

The pitching looked good and the defense looked pretty good. It took a little while to get our bats warm, but we hit the ball from the get-go we just hit it at them.

The pitching was good tonight. It was just our bats went cold after the first inning.

Since we've been home, it's only been the one game where we scored any runs. We're missing out on a lot of chances and not hitting with men in scoring position. Everybody is frustrated that we're not swinging the bats better.

Shane really gutted it out. That is the longest he has pitched for us and we had him for 75 pitches. Give him a lot of credit for gutting it out and being very effective. That was a huge factor for us to have him come in and shut them (Phantoms) down. They swing the bats well.

She has shown us from the beginning of the season that she is able to do that. Even though she bats ninth, that doesn't mean anything. She's a hitter.

She took a great angle. We've been stressing that. Early on in the season we weren't taking great angles ... The kids can play defense, we just need our bats to catch up. We need to get confident at the plate.

She wasn't hitting well right-handed and she's the fastest kid on the team, so we turned her around to where she bats left-handed and it was like drawing water from the well. She's as good of a left-handed hitter as anybody we've faced.

We were contagiously all bad at the same time, now we're contagiously all swinging the bats pretty good. Baseball's a funny game. You can't figure it out. When it's good, you just try to enjoy it as long as you can.

I always respect right off the bat because we are human, but then over time you learn who the person truly is, just like they learn about you. Hope it works out really well, and you hope that builds a stronger connection over time. You can't be friends with everybody.

I hate to say it, but I'm getting used to it a little bit. Our defense is strong. Even if it's close, as long as we can get a couple of runs, we're in good shape. Hopefully we can wake up the bats a little bit.

Guys took their place and did a terrific job with the bats and we were pitching well. We don't have Scott back, but we have Larry and Reggie back. Both of those guys can handle a bat, so you don't push as much with them as you would with some of the other guys.

He left some pitches up, and they're a good-hitting team. They certainly took advantage of every pitch he didn't hit a spot on. Give them credit. I think they played well. I thought they came out and swung the bats well. I thought we competed. Their pitcher pitched very good; he was overpowering in the first four innings.

This was one our better performances. We swung the bats well, ran the bases well and made the plays defensively. It was a great effort by the kids today, we really needed this win today.

This was a good win for us, even though our bats cooled off significantly. We failed to make some adjustments until late in the game, but we wanted to go into the vacation week at 3-0, and we accomplished that goal.

I can't figure it out. I'm a little puzzled by it. It's pretty brutal how we're swinging the bats right now.

Getting run support had to help, but I thought Albert did a super job. He got us out of a jam after we pulled within a run early and let our bats get going. And Davis has been good all year. They both did well.

I feel really good. Our bats are coming alive, our discipline at the plate has improved greatly. We're hitting the ball through the whole lineup right now.

I feel good about our chances (Saturday). We've got a good pitcher on the mound, and hopefully we can swing the bats a little better.

If we're up by a couple of runs, our kids are going to show you what our bats can do. If our backs are against the wall, it's get kids on base and show what we can do to steal bases and put the ball in play.

I expect a lot of at bats and a lot of work. I know that play will dictate how many at bats I will get.

I expect us to start swinging the bats pretty good. I'm confident we're going to start swinging the bats better.

I felt pretty good. I had good command of all four of my pitches. They've got guys that can swing the bats over there. It's a challenge to face them.

I felt real good today. It's been a couple of games that I haven't been seeing the ball that well and the first couple of bats I couldn't hit, but that one hit felt real good.

I felt like I had to salute the fans because they were always great to me here and I know now they're just booing the uniform. They appreciated everything I did and how I played the game. I'm just disappointed we didn't come out swinging the bats better.

Bats are critical to wildlife habitats, ... They're very important for insect control, seed dispersal, and pollination.

Bats are insect dependent, so their food source is gone until you have another source of food.

Having all three girls get wins on the mound is also a positive sign. That is constantly one of our strengths and we have really been working to get the bats going for days like these.

We've got to play a very good Detroit team, and obviously, we didn't swing the bats very well in the first two games (in Kansas City). So, righting the ship, that comes over a long period of time.

We feel like if we can get a pretty good offense together, we'll win some games. Pitching's been good all year long and the bats started coming around today, which is good because we've been talking about it way too much.

Guys are just doing the little things, taking advantage. And our two-strike at bats the first two days have been tremendous.

We swung the bats aggressively. It was nice to see.

We swung the bats a lot better. When we score early, we allow the pitcher the chance to be more comfortable to do his job.

We swung the bats much better, got a big lead and got to look at some pitchers who've been hurt a little bit. They came back on us a little bit, but the guys did what they had to do.

We swung the bats much better today than what we showed. We hit a lot of balls at guys that made some good plays. We caught break on the ball Jermaine hit.

We swung the bats pretty well, but it's hard to claw back when you're in such a huge hole.

We swung the bats really well and had a lot of guys on base. We also did a good job of running the bases.

We swung the bats really well. Offensively we were pretty good.

We swung the bats really well today. It was a good team effort.

We swung the bats really well today. This was a huge series for us - we knew we had to step it up against them, because they have been playing really well.

We swung the bats tonight and we're capable of it every time we come out. We hit 'em tonight and they fell.

We swung the bats very good tonight. I'm glad to see the guys swing like this.

We swung the bats well against them. We're going to have to do it (Tuesday). Each game is different, each inning is different, so we just have to adjust and make sure we have a good plan.

We swung the bats well and pitched really well. The guys have been doing what we ask them to do. Our Achilles heel is definitely the defensive end. We have two or three pop up in one inning. That is a sign of a young team and we are a very young team.

We swung the bats well right off the jump.

We swung the bats well today. We got some key hits with men in scoring position. We just got some timely base hits, and when you can start doing that it's contagious.

We swung the bats well tonight. And that is important. Its good to get that first win as well.

We take a lot of pride in that, to be honest. It's one of the things that we've learned. If we're going to be a team that is a success, there are going to be days when our bats are asleep and we're going to need to manufacture. We're pretty good when we get on base, but sometimes we have to steal first.

I lost track of how many at-bats we had today. After seven or eight at-bats, the bats starting getting heavy. Guys hadn't eaten since 10 or 11 this morning. It takes a lot out of you. You've got to gut it out. They did. I wish them luck. They played an outstanding series.

I admit that I've been beaten up so many times in films, but we do not fake it - we actually have to fight when we shoot to make it real and to save film and time. Even the props that are not real, like the bats are plastic, but they're still very hard, so it still hurts.

He used all his stuff on both sides of the plate. We had a good game yesterday. We didn't swing the bats well today.

He was a late-inning stud all through college and continued in his first pro year. He has an 88-90 fastball with a good slider. He's an outstanding strike thrower, missing bats down in the zone with a low, three-quarters delivery. He has presence, confidence and instincts on the mound with a history of success.

He just threw a lot of pitches. They will wear you out. You have to get ahead of these guys and make them swing the bats early because they will pitch count you. They are very capable of that. They have several very good hitters in that lineup.

He just took our bats and shoved them up our bat racks.

We looked real slow with the bats tonight. Being outside for the first time with live pitching, that was a tell-tale sign.

I am here to get ready for the season. My main objective is to throw good pitches. I want the guys to swing the bats and hit the ball. I was really happy for a while there, the fact I was getting ahead.

He was breaking a lot of bats early in the game. His cutter was getting in there. He had good stuff tonight. The ball was jumping out of his hand.

He had gotten into a couple fights, and one time he and his friends took baseball bats to some kids.

When they're swinging the bats as good as they are, you hate to give them a day. You want to give them a day when they're not swinging the bat good. When you're swinging the bat good, you can't wait to get to the ballpark.

Hopefully we can stay consistent with defense, pitching, and team unity. Also if our bats can continue to get hot, we should be able to stay competitive.

We talked after losing the first game that positive people make positive things happen. We forgot about what happened in that first game and the kids battled in the second game. We told the guys to just swing the bats and be aggressive and they came through.

He made a lot of real good pitches and only made a couple of mistakes, even though the home run to Delgado wasn't a mistake. He made a real good pitch. I thought he did a decent job, especially against a team that has some real good bats and is leading the league in hitting.

We took a really good shot at them tonight. They're a very good club, and they withstood it and really swung the bats all the way through.

We just have to keep swinging the bats and it will come. We'll snap out of it soon.

Jordan pitched with a lot of heart after having pitched extended innings a couple days ago. Our bats were really flat behind him, because we struck out 10 times and had only three walks.

That 60 feet and 6 inches, it can keep us in the game when we throw well, and when we don't we won't fare so well. We did not swing the bats bad from being off a week. We swung a lot better in the second game. We just need to keep plugging away.